Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday, Dec. 11, said she will not give any explanation about the suspicious identities of the Office of the Vice President (OVP)'s confidential funds' recipients.
Despite repeated attempts by the media to seek for Duterte's explanation about the suspicious names, including Mary Grace Piattos, the Vice President said she "cannot explain because it will entail explaining intelligence operations."
READ: https://mb.com.ph/2024/12/11/sara-refuses-to-explain-suspicious-identities-of-confi-funds-recipients
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Despite repeated attempts by the media to seek for Duterte's explanation about the suspicious names, including Mary Grace Piattos, the Vice President said she "cannot explain because it will entail explaining intelligence operations."
READ: https://mb.com.ph/2024/12/11/sara-refuses-to-explain-suspicious-identities-of-confi-funds-recipients
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00:00In the NDF-ELCA, they are only about local armed conflict and local, or, there, ELCA.
00:21So that is very specific to that, local conflict and communism.
00:29So as I said, the projects and the programs of OVP target poverty alleviation, and there
00:36are so many factors affecting poverty, and there are so many threats to education, not
00:42just insurgency.
00:43But there are also other government agencies with national security mandates that you can
00:49work with, your office can work with.
00:52Yes, that is true, but we work far faster if we are allowed to purchase information
00:58and target our projects immediately on a certain school or certain barangay or certain municipality.
01:07We move faster if we can target our projects.
01:12I cannot explain confidential funds because it will entail explaining intelligence operations.
01:25And there is a law that prohibits officials who gather information because of their office
01:35to divulge it in public.
01:41So it's the Anti-Draft and Corrupt Practices Act.
01:44There is a specific provision of law.
01:48You cannot divulge confidential information that you received while in office.
02:02No, that's because that will add to cases that may be filed against me.
02:12Wait, hold on.
02:13I can answer.
02:14I can give you a very short answer with regard to ARs.
02:17I had nothing to do with the preparation of ARs.
02:20It went down to the grassroots level.
02:24So I had nothing to do with preparations of ARs.
02:28I was up here in the structure, and money went down for information.
02:34So you have no knowledge why all these things were used in your files, for instance?
02:39In the first place, we do not even know if these are ARs which came from DepEd or OVP to COA.
02:51Because there's a chain of evidence, supposedly.
02:55In Loyola, there's a chain of evidence, handling of evidence.
03:00So right now, nobody can really answer that because nobody knows if these ARs are true.
03:06Because we don't know if it came from us.
03:09That's what they're alleging.
03:11Yes, that's what they're saying.
03:13The OVPs admitted to COA.
03:15Yes, but there is a legal process in the custody of evidence.
03:21So right now, we really cannot say if the ARs came from us.
03:26Because the ARs that are with us have not been checked with the ARs that are with them.
03:35For more information, visit www.fema.gov